Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands trembled. Lieut. Preston Niland, missing since June 7 in the Normandy invasion, was only one of her soldier sons on the Army's casualty list. Still carried as missing were sons Edward (a bomber gunner in Burma) and Robert (a sergeant with the paratroopers in Normandy...
Coningham invented the tactic of sending out small bomber formations with inordinately powerful fighter escorts-e.g., 80 fighters for 18 bombers. The escorts would so chew up the enemy fighter strength that smaller escorts were enough for protection thereafter, and bomber missions could be multiplied...
Rommel had a concentration of guns, armor and Italians at El Hamma. Coningham turned loose nearly every medium and light bomber in North Africa on the still-cocky Nazi. For two and a half hours, sticks of bombs were continuously in the air. At the end of the breakthrough and the pursuit, Rommel had lost 300 tanks and vehicles, and his armored back was finally broken...
Sergeant & Pretty Nurse. Long before Captain Spencer and his U.S. medium-bomber crew are forced down in German territory, each crew member has been warned to tell his captors only his name, rank and serial number. The movie dramatizes the wiles employed by the German Military Intelligence to worm out additional information...
...Spencer unless the surprised sergeant spills some more. The sergeant spills. In another part of the camp, another sergeant is getting the reverse treatment: after a scary but harmless session in a hotbox cell, he is lured into blabbing by kindness and good food. Soon the commandant knows the bomber unit's specialty, range, materiel, and the fact that it plans a major raid within 24 hours...